SCHUBERT, F.: Schone Mullerin (Die) (PAL)

DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN
Franz Schubert

Baritone: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Piano: András Schiff

Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: LPCM stereo
Running Time: 82 Mins
Region Code: PAL All
Booklet Languages: GB, F, D
Recording Date: 20 June 1991

Cat. No.: DV-CODSM

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau will turn 80 in May 2005. To celebrate the event, TDK has joined forces with the Schubertiade and Austrian Television to present a very special concert on DVD.

In 1991, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau finally agreed to perform Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin at the Feldkirch Schubertiade - he had not sung the song-cycle in public for twenty years. The great baritone belonged to the innermost circle of artists who give this unique, Austrian festival of chamber music its distinctive character. He had performed Schubert there on many occasions, but never Die Schöne Müllerin. The pianist András Schiff was another long-standing member of the inner circle, but this was the artists' first collaboration in Feldkirch - and so Austrian Television (ORF) recorded the concert. The documentary importance of this film was enhanced by Fischer-Dieskau's retirement from public performance two years later.

During another Schubertiade a few years earlier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was interviewed by music journalist Franz Zoglauer. The resulting documentary of singer, painter and private person augments the concert presented on this DVD. The singer speaks of his affinity to Schubert and the composer's influence on the whole Lieder repertoire.

This is a unique occasion, not only for the listeners in the hall but also for the two artists, who experienced their collaboration on the podium as something quite exceptional. The viewer can see this in the artists' animated give and take, their spontaneous mutual reactions, the creative excitement and a rare artistic vivacity. Both remember the evening as a special event, and without any hesitation consented to the recording being issued on DVD to make it available to a wider public.